Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW)

The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW) promotes and facilitates national and international research on contemporary writing by women in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish (including Catalan and Galician). The CCWW's activities and events focus predominantly on a rich and fascinating corpus of post-1968 authors and texts, but a wider understanding of 'contemporary' is also welcomed.

The Centre was officially launched on 16 October 2009 with a reading entitled 'Writing Childhood' by three authors: Ana Luísa Amaral, Anna Mitgutsch and Nicoletta Vallorani (further information and video recording).

The objectives of the CCWW are:

To act as an umbrella organisation for scholars interested in women's writing in each of the Centre's language areas

To stimulate and host networking opportunities

To foster cross-cultural collaboration amongst scholars in the field of contemporary women's writing

To provide a variety of on-line research resources

To organise both single-language and cross-cultural events (conferences and workshops, study days, seminars, book launches and author readings, reading groups and round-table discussions)

To generate, facilitate and carry out research projects, especially comparative and cross-cultural collaborations